Corset-eye.



PATBNTED APR. 18, 1905.

P. E. VANDBRGOOK.

CORSET EYE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11, 1902.

vwentoz Ea n E; VizncYercook Patented April 18, 1905.

ATENT FFICE.

FRANK E. VANDERCOOK, OF IVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-T I'l 1R1.) TO \VILLIAM E. VANDERCOOK AND ON E-Tl'llhl) TO HORACE U. FOSDICK, OF ANSONIA, CONNEU' lUUT.

CORSET-EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 787,866, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed March 11, 1902. Serial No. 97,682.

Be it known that I, FRANK E. VANDFRCOOK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of \Vaterbury, in the county of New llaveu and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corset-Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in corset-eyes, such as are used upon stays to form a part of the clasp which secures the uniting front edges of the corset together.

It is the objectof my invention to simplify and cheapen the construction of eyes of this class, and especially to produce one which may be made automatically of a single piece of wire, including rivet ends, whereby the eye may be attached to a corset-steel by a single blow of a press; further, to accomplish the above objects in a more practical and durable manner than has ever been done before, and especially to reinforce and strengthen the eye at the point of attaclunent to the steel by providing a longer and broader shank adjoining the rivet ends, and, finally, to produce an eye which will possess a finished flat face and smooth rounded edges.

\Vith the above objects in view my invention resides and consists in the novel construction and combination of parts shown upon the accompanying sheet of drawings, forming a part of this specification, upon which similar letters of reference denote like or corresponding parts tl'iroughout the several figures, and of which-- Figure I shows an inverted perspective view of my improved corset-eye as it appears before being applied. Fig. 2 is a further perspective view of the top side of the eye and a steel, showing the holes through which the rivet ends of the eye are inserted for attachment. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the eye and steel assembled. Fig. 4: is a transverse crosssection taken on line t 4: of Fig. 2).

before stated, this eye forms one part of a corset-clasp, of which a stud (not shown) secured to a similar steel constitutes the other part. In practice these eyes are arranged at a certain distance apart upon the steel and about five of them are used upon the average 5 corset. These eyes are attached to the steels before they are placed in the corset and in some instances are manufactured and furnished t0 the corset trade in this form. ()thers, again, buy the eyes and steels separate and have girls unite them with the assistance of a suitable machine.

The old styles of corset-eyes were made of sheet metal and were secured to the steels by two separate rivets. The more recent and universal forms of eyes are stamped up from sheet metal and contain two or more integral rivets. The pronged sheet-metal eyes serve the purpose very well, but obviously are expensive to manufacture, since in stamping them out a large percentage of scrap is produced, which is practically worthless. So far as I am aware there are no wire corset-eyes on the market having infegral rivet ends, (although some such wire devices have been patented,) for the reason that said eyes are not as durable as the sheet-metal ones, since as now constructed they are weak and readily break off at substantially the point of union of the two parts, or, in other words, at the rightangular bend of the wire where the rivet end is formed. My invention, therefore, is designed to combine the practicability of the sheet-metal eye with the cheapness of the wire eye, as will be apparent from the drawings 30 and the following detail description.

Upon the accompanying drawings, A represents a portion of a corset-steel; B, the usual holes therein whereby the eyes are attached.

U indicates my improved eye a whole, 5 the same being bent to shape from a single piece of wire and designed to be turned out rapidly and inexpensively by automatic machinery. This eye, as will be noted, is formed from round wire which is flattened in part to 9 produce flat top and bottom surfaces, with oval inner and outer edges on both the loop and shank, but having round extensions or rivet ends. This flat effect of the loop can be secured in several ways, preferably, however, by flattening the wire after the eye is bent into the desired shape.

D represents the loop of the eye, and E the narrow slot or holding portion of the loop and wherein the stud (not shown) is drawn for engagement.

F indicates the two shank portions of the eye; G, the return reinforcements of such shanks, which are extended to the rear, returned, and disposed substantially parallel against the inside of the shanks, and H represents the rivet ends, which are bent from and at a right angle to such return reinforcements. These ends are of a proper length to permit them to pass through the steel and be riveted therein. Said rivets, as will be seen, are located in some distance from the ends of the shank, or, in other words, intermediate of said shank, which arrangement gives a broad flat shoulder around substantially three sides of the rivet, which broad shoulder lies flat against the face of the steel, forming an enlarged engagement between the parts, thus relieving the eye of a contracted strain on any particular part and especially at the right-angular bend in the wire.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A corset-eye formed of a single piece of wire bent and flattened and consisting of a loop, a shank therefor having a return reinforcement, and a rivet end at a right angle to and on said return reinforcement.

2. A corset-eye made of a single piece of Wire comprising a stud-engaging loop, shank portions, reinforcements of and lying parallel with said shanks, and rivet ends located on the ends of said reinforcements, substantially as described.

3. A corset-eye comprising a single piece of wire flattened and bent to form an engaging loop, shanks formed on the loop, reinforcements of said shanks returned and disposed against the main shank-wire, and rivet ends formed on the ends of said reinforcements and i at a right angle thereto.

4. A corset-eye consisting of a single piece of wire comprising an engaging eye, shanks, reinforcements disposed against the inner edge of each of said shanks and rivet ends at a right angle to said shanks.

5. A corset-eye comprising a single piece of wire flattened and bent to form asuitable loop, and shanks, each of the latter consisting of a main wire, reinforcements thereof comprising parallel returned wires flattened to form a broad shoulder, a rivet end formed on each of said reinforcements and located intermediate of the shank.

6. A corset-eye formed of one piece of wire bent and swaged and comprising a flat engaging loop, broad flattened shanks and rivet ends protruding at a right angle from and intermediate of the length of such shanks.

7 A corset-eye comprising a single piece of wire bent and swaged to form a flattened engaging loop, shanks integral with the loop and having return reinforcements to increase their breadth, rivet ends disposed at a right angle to and intermediate of the length of the shanks.

8. A corset-eye corn prisinga single piece of wire bent to form an engaging loop, shanks of such loop, reinforcements of such shanks, with means intermediate of the length of the shanks for their attachment to a steel.

9. A corset-eye made of a single piece of wire bent to form an engaging loop and with its free ends bent to form shanks with parallel reinforcements disposed against said shank, and integral round attaching rivet ends disposed from and at right angles to such reinforcements and the main body.

Signed at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this 3d day of March, A. D. 1902.

FRANK E. VANDERCOOK.

Witnesses:

GEO. E. J UDD, J. H. SOMERS. 

